Fermilab Accelerators
History
• Early 1960’s – plans solidify for a high energy national accelerator laboratory.
• 1966 – The AEC chooses the Weston, IL site from amongst hundreds proposed.
• 1968 – Construction begins.
• 1972 – First 200 GeV beam in the Main Ring.
• 1983 – First (512 GeV) beam in the  Tevatron (“Energy Doubler”).  Old Main Ring serves as “injector”.
• 1985 – First proton-antiproton collisions observed at CDF (1.6 TeV CoM).
• 1995 – Top quark discovery. End of Run I.
• 1999 – Main Injector complete.
• 2001 – Run II begins.